Re: ath5k regression associating with APs in 2.6.38

From: John W. Linville
Date: Wed May 04 2011 - 13:31:18 EST


On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:38:19AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> I've been investigating some reports of a regression in associating with
> APs with AR2413 in 2.6.38. Association repeatedly fails with some
> "direct probe to x timed out" messages (see syslog excerpt below),
> although it will generally associate eventually, after many tries.
>
> Bisection identifies 8aec7af (ath5k: Support synth-only channel change
> for AR2413/AR5413) as offending commit. Prior to this commit there are
> no direct probe messages at all in the logs. I've also found that
> forcing fast to false at the top of ath5k_hw_reset() fixes the issue.
> I'm not sure what the connection is between this commit and the
> timeouts. Any suggestions?

Have you tried reverting that commit on top of 2.6.38? Can you
recreate the issue with 2.6.39-rc6 (or later)?

John
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